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Tech News Trends: Tracking Brand Buzz
A statistical overview of the last 6 months in technology
As a result of assembling technology news articles through news aggregator teXpy, I've got an extensive and well-organised record of the state of technology news coverage dating back to September 2006 - with nearly 100,000 articles and 640,000 keywords associated with those articles, there's a healthy body of data, ripe for analysis. [read more...]
What does it take to be in 9rules?
A selection of vital statistics from the blogging network
Popular blogging network 9rules (of which Modern Life is a part) comprises of a few hundred blogs, hand-picked for quality content. For some bloggers, the leaf ident is a badge of honour - the window for applications is but once or twice a year, and lasts just 24 hours, and many are turned away - so the general quality of sites in the network is maintained. [read more...]
Leading Average: Top Blog Trends
Common traits of the top few blogs
The best blogs all have a quite few things in common – regular, well written content and a large number of subscribers are base requisites for a Technorati Top 100 Blog. But what other traits do these select few blogs share? [read more...]
Technorati Rank: In Depth & Explained
Meaningless number or viable benchmark?
Technorati has established itself as the definitive tracker for the blogosphere – with more than 50 million blogs in their index, they certainly have a gargantuan task at hand when it comes to organizing that information. Much in the same way that Google ranks search engine results by link popularity, Technorati keeps track of who’s linked to who in the world of the blogosphere, accumulating data on the ‘authority’ of such publications. One interesting side effect of this is that Technorati can effectively ‘rank’ the entire blogosphere, based on link popularity – but what can this figure tell us? [read more...]
